Sprint Communications Company L.P. v. Pacific Bell Telephone Company et al

Filing 59

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the parties shall file a joint status memorandum within 10 days of the date of this Order advising me whether they intend to move for consolidation and/or a stay of this case. In the alternative, the parties may notify me of a pending motion for consolidation or file appropriate motions for stay within 10 days of the date of this Order.. Signed by District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on 11/3/14. (LGK)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
EASTERN DIVISION
SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS CO., L.P., )
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Plaintiff,
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Vs.
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VERIZON CALIFORNIA, INC.,
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Defendant.
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Case No. 4:14CV1750 RWS

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
This newly transferred case is before me on my review of the file. The California district
court severed the claims against defendant Verizon and transferred them here at the request of
the parties because they claimed they were already in global settlement negotiations in a similar
case pending before the Honorable Carol E. Jackson styled Sprint Communications Co., L.P. v.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co, et al., Cause Number 4:14CV850. The parties told the
California court that they wanted these cases consolidated in this district. I have not yet been
notified of any pending motion to consolidate the instant case with Judge Jackson’s, and a
review of the docket sheet in that case reveals that it has been stayed pending a ruling from the
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
Accordingly,

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the parties shall file a joint status memorandum within
10 days of the date of this Order advising me whether they intend to move for consolidation
and/or a stay of this case. In the alternative, the parties may notify me of a pending motion for
consolidation or file appropriate motions for stay within 10 days of the date of this Order.

RODNEY W. SIPPEL
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated this 3rd

day of November, 2014.

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